La Mort des amants

Auguste Villiers de L'Isle Adam, Augusta Holmès

Recordings	Parisian Intersections (companion website) (2011)
Poems	La Mort des Amants
Languages	French
Scorings	solo voice, piano
Genres	Mélodie, Classical
Tessitura	high voice
Tonality	A major
Notes	Holmès' transcription is mainly in A major, but shifts into the relative key of F# minor for the third tercet, before returning to A major for the final tercet. For an analysis of Augusta Holmès' transcription of Villiers' setting of La Mort des amants, see Helen Abbott, Parisian Intersections: Baudelaire's Legacy to Composers, (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 94-97.